Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.